Improvement in alarm-registers



JWW]? T. VOSBURGH. Alarm-Register.

No. 209,946. Patented Nov. 12,1878.

A lllllllll 7220 Zia-0 N. PETERS, FHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

TUNIS VOSBURGH, OF CLYDE, NEKV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lN ALARM-REGISTERS.

Specification ibrming part of Letters Patent No. 209,946, dated November12, 1878; application filed J unc 5 To all about it may concern:

Be it known. that I, TUNIs VOSBURG-H, of Clyde, in the county of \Vayneand State of New York, have invented a useful machine adapted to thecorrect indicating or registering of numbers, 01. which the following isa specification:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the operating mechanism. Fig. 2 is a rearelevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same, and. Fig.T is a view of the box, dial, and dialcap.

This invention relates to the indicating or registering of numbers.

The object of my invention is to provide a rapid, reliable, and correctmethod of indicating or registering numbers by means of a compactmachine composed of a combination of wheels, springs, lever-power,ratchet-movement, hell or gong, and pointers or indicators so worked ormoved by machinery as to indicate correctly upon a dial the number oftimes the bell has been struck when the pointers have been set at agiven number or numbers, the whole securely inclosed in a compact ironbox, as shown by the drawing accompanying this specification.

The general working of the machine may be described as follows: Into thebasewheel A, which works on a pivot securely fastened at the bottom ofthe box, meshes the dial wheel 0, in each of which are fifty cogs ornotches. These, when moved by the leverpower attachment, as shown. inFig. 3, will cause the pointer or indicator, which counts by singlenumbers, to indicate upon the dial that one number has been passed atevery stroke of the gong or bell.

i5 is a ratchet-wheel with twenty notches or cogs, which is worked bythe same leverpower, and at every revolution of the base wheel it passesone cog, and is moved by catching an extra or large cog in the basewheelA, causing the gong or bell to ring and the proper pointer or indicatorto mark or count iifty upon the dial, so that by twenty revolutions ofthe basewhcel A there will be one revolution of the ratchet-wheel 0,counting one thousand upon the dial.

D is the lever, and E the handle of the same, which is worked from theoutside of the box, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, connected by springs Kand M, the spring K being attached to and governing the dog L, thespring M being the mainsprin g of the lever handle E.

G is a catch-spring, which works on the base-wheel A, and governs themovement of the base-wheel holding at every notch.

H is the hammer attached to the lever D, and strikes one upon the gongor bell F every time the lever-handle E is pressed down and thrown backby the mainspring M. One notch or cog on the base-wheel A being passedcauses the proper pointer to indicate one as counted. on the dial.

I is the stop-spring ot' the ratchet-wheel 13, and governs its movement,holdingitat every notch. J is the spring-arm, connecting the lever Ewith the dog L. O and U show a general view of the dial with. pointersor indicators and numbers. V shows the dog-arm attached to the lever. \Vshows the pivot of shaft earryin g the pointers.

The operation of this invention is as fol lows: \Vhen the lever ispressed down it causes the main base-wheel A to move one notch and theproper pointer on the dial to count one by moving forward one number,and the lever being suddenly thrown back by the mainspring M causes thegong or hell I to ring by being struck by the hammer. At everyrevolution of the main or base wheel A one notch is passed on theratchet-wheel G, causing the proper pointer to move forward and indicatetitty as having been counted on the dial.

hat known as the bell-punch is ob jectionable for registering orcounting numbers, for the reason that it requires the puucln ing ofpaper strips in connection with it.

My invention is adapted to the purpose of rapidly counting andindicating the numbers counted in. and of itself as the lever is sprung,

operated by springs K M to cause the hammer H to strike the bell-F andthe dog L to move the wheels, substantially as and for the purposessetforth.

r TUNIS VOSBURGH. Witnesses:

JUDSON HoLooMB, WILLIAM V. BRowN.

